Quickie: First Iron Man 2 poster released

Yahoo has put up the first official poster for Iron Man 2. Looks great!!!!

Quickie: New Toy Story 3 teaser trailer

Enjoy!

Death of the DVD?

Hello boys and girls, and welcome to the round table. I don't know why I just said that, but I did, and you're reading it so ha! Today I want to discuss something near and dear to my heart, the DVD medium. I remember less than ten years ago, my life was changed forever... DVD's were made readily available at a store near you. You're telling me I can skip chapters, like 5 or 10 minutes at a time? You're telling me there's subtitles and multi-angles (which never works btw)? YOU, are telling ME, that there will be "extra" stuff, like behing-the-scenes footage and "making of" documentaries? Holy-shmoly! I was hooked, and here I am over a 1,000 DVD's deep and into the Blu-Ray medium.

Here's my concern, everything is headed digital, or streaming. Netflix online, or straight to a PS3 or X-Box 360 is coming. Streaming movies from their server to your system. Digital Copies of your favorite movies online, for free, and legal. Some may argue that nothing replaces the physical aspect of owning a DVD or Blu-Ray. But I'll tell you this... they said that about CD's no more than five years ago. And now, the digital downloading age is upon us. I officially have as many friends that buy CD's as they do at the iTunes store.

I have always been one to adapt to change, but these DVD's are my babies and I can't let them fall to the waste side. I can't seem to accept that some day, there will be nothing but microchips to play our movies, in full HD. I have to be OK with letting them go. But for now, I will not. I will hold my head up high and brag... about my DVD's!

Guest Review: Al Berto: "The Men Who Stare at Goats"

I must say, the only thing that was remotely interesting about The Men Who Stare at Goats was the trailer. Whoever created this trailer did a pretty damn good job, because this movie was just horrible. This movie reminds me of Burn after reading. It’s clear the writers couldn’t figure out which genre the movie was going to be. It tries so hard to be a comedy, yet it keeps falling short of a drama.

A reporter, played by Ewan McGregor, is in Iraq trying to find the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

Throughout the whole movie you’re wondering to yourself, is Lyn Cassady for real or full of BS? And as the plot goes on you realize he’s a little bit of both. The two of them roam around the Middle East trying to find “something” and run into a number of obstacles and only have one tool to find it, Lyn Cassady’s psychic abilities.

George Clooney’s last few movies haven’t been really that good, and I’d think twice about seeing another one in the future.

All and all, it’s the type of movie you’d expect so much from, yet it falls so short. I guess if you’ve seen everything else, and you’re really really bored, then go see this.

Guest Review: Al Berto: "Planet 51"

Welcome to a world of creativity with a lack of… creativity.

Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson , an American astronaut, lands on an unknown planet thinking he's the first life form to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in an American 1950’s, white picket fence world. Lem, played by Justin Long, (who you can usually be find in the Mac vs. PC commercials), is just a teenager working on getting the girl of his dreams, while trying to land a job at a local planetarium. Lem risks his job, his relationship with his family and his future girlfriend to help Chuck get back to his ship orbiting the planet above.

When I watched the trailer to this movie I was totally excited. I thought to myself, “finally, something original.” I’m so sick of this phase the film industry is going through of bringing back old ideas to keep selling tickets. It’s as if Hollywood writers lost all touch with the right side of their brains and I’m honestly getting sick of the “Hollywood Formula:” Everything’s normal, something disrupts it all, the main character faces a number of challenges, he or she overcomes those challenges, happy ending. You’d think in this day and age that movie watchers would expect more, something a little different.

Sadly this movie is typically the same as the rest. The one thing that stuck me the most was the complete lack of imagination and creativity from such an amazing plot idea. They took absolutely no effort whatsoever to give you the feeling that you were on another world. I think the only real difference between earth and planet 51 was that the inhabitants physically look different, (they were obviously green with four fingers and didn’t have noses), and they have weird gravitation properties. Their dogs were a small cute version of the alien seen in the 1986 movie Alien. For some reason they had American looking cars that floated, yet their helicopters needed blades to lift them off the ground. Somehow, 50 million light years away, another species also invented a game that required a round heavy object to hit 10 pins, and they called it bowling! Did I mention it rained rocks? The odds of all this occurring has to be one out of, I don’t know, a billion-zillion-kagillion! The one and only thing that was remotely entertaining about this movie was a small probe sent to the planet to study and find living creatures, but failed its mission because it had an obsession with examining and collecting rocks.

You would figure an animated movie would have encouraged a number of creative ideas from such an interesting movie plot idea. Planet 51 was basically just a reason to make a quick buck by an unknown animated movie company. This is why Pixar will still be number one in my book; DreamWorks comes in a close second.

Edward Norton's "Leaves of Grass" Trailer

Now this looks awesome.

Leaves of Grass is basically a pot comedy thriller.
It stars Edward Norton in two roles as identical twins, Susan Sarandon as their mom, and Richard Dreyfuss as a drug lord.

The film is written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, who you probably know from the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou?



Here's the official plot synopsis:

“Edward Norton is Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, who returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he’s implicated in a murder, and his life has become completely unraveled…”

What do you guys think?

"RED" Cast = Holy Crap

A few of you might remember my posting on the upcoming film Red.

Basically, Summit Entertainment is bringing to life Warren Ellis' graphic novel Red.

As I mentioned before, the film will star Bruce Willis as the main character with Morgan Freeman co-starring.
Well, now you can also add to the lineup Helen Mirren, John C. Reilly, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss, and Brian Cox!
Also joining the cast are Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), and Mary Louise Parker (Weeds).

Once again, here is the basic story:

"As a C.I.A. operative, Paul Moses’s unique talent for killing took him around the world, from one hotspot to another, carrying out the deadly orders of his superiors. And when he retired, he wanted to put his bloody past behind him. But when a new administration takes over the White House, the powers that be decide that Moses knows too much, forcing him back into the game against the agency that trained him."

We can't wait for a trailer to see how they'll transfer the comic's unique look to the big screen!